Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Woolworth's stores in Boulder, Colo., Madison, Wis., and Boston, lent weight to a drive organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to exert economic pressure against five-and-dime chains. Variety stores in North and South were feeling the pinch of Negro economic pressure-a new weapon long deemed too risky-but so far the Negroes had not yet won so much as an integrated cup of coffee below the Potomac...
...some of the men quoted in answer to President Eisenhower's expression of faith in the durability of American democracy (Feb. 15) are most eager to replace "aspiration" with "achievement" as the highest virtue. It appears that some of them have sustained severe injury from the truly "ultimate weapon" of destruction-the weapon of fear. Nearly every one of them uses words or phrases such as "achievement," "conquest," "political and military struggle," "falling behind," "cope with Communism," "prevail," "intense effort." These expressions all suggest that our greatest need is reputation rather than character...
...grew more moderate when the British authorities agreed to a multiracial government. "Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way," he preached from his modest bungalow in Dar es Salaam. But his goal never changed: "The African must and will rule. Our unity is our weapon." Relieved to find a leader with such common sense, the British in December agreed to "responsible" government with an African legislative majority in Tanganyika for a four-year transition period, after which the Africans will almost certainly take over entirely. "Now," says Nyerere, slated to be the first Prime Minister, "our task...
...MISSILE SPENDING will give Douglas Aircraft $60 million in fiscal 1961 for full-scale development of its 1,000-mile, air-to-ground Sky-bolt missile. Designed as a "standoff" weapon to be launched from B-52 jet bombers, Skybolt is expected to be major nuclear weapon, is slated to go into service within next three to five years...
...shock to the West largely because it was ignorant of the years of preparation of Kurchatov and his colleagues. Kurchatov, in fact, boasted that Russia invented the first real hydrogen bomb, since the thermonuclear device exploded earlier by the U.S. was too large to serve as a weapon...